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Worried patients are looking to their healthcare providers for information about the Zika virus and their personal risk. Update your knowledge about Zika virus infection, including how it's transmitted and what to teach patients about preventive measures.

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Worried patients are looking to their healthcare providers for information about the Zika virus and their personal risk. Update your knowledge about Zika virus infection, including how it's transmitted and what to teach patients about preventive measures.

Severe sepsis in children is associated with alarming morbidity and mortality. Take this opportunity to update your knowledge of sepsis as outlined in the most recent guidelines from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, including evidence-based nursing considerations for newborns and children.

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Severe sepsis in children is associated with alarming morbidity and mortality. Take this opportunity to update your knowledge of sepsis as outlined in the most recent guidelines from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, including evidence-based nursing considerations for newborns and children.

Update your knowledge about five types of viral hepatitis, including how diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care differ depending on the causative pathogen. Reading this article will help prepare you to minimize the risk of serious complications and educate patients about self care.

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Update your knowledge about five types of viral hepatitis, including how diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care differ depending on the causative pathogen. Reading this article will help prepare you to minimize the risk of serious complications and educate patients about self care.

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Lyme disease often hogs the spotlight, but many other tick-borne illnesses can be more harmful—and in some cases, fatal. Update your knowledge about seven infections transmitted by ticks, including distinguishing signs and symptoms, and teach patients how to minimize risks.

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Lyme disease often hogs the spotlight, but many other tick-borne illnesses can be more harmful—and in some cases, fatal. Update your knowledge about seven infections transmitted by ticks, including distinguishing signs and symptoms, and teach patients how to minimize risks.

Can you recognize signs and symptoms of this common vector-borne disease? Update your knowledge of the latest diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines, then take a bite out of Lyme disease by teaching your patients about prevention measures.

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Can you recognize signs and symptoms of this common vector-borne disease? Update your knowledge of the latest diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines, then take a bite out of Lyme disease by teaching your patients about prevention measures.

Although associated with cats, this infection can be carried by many other creatures, including dogs, horses, and certain ticks and flies. Here's the lowdown on how to recognize cat scratch disease and what to teach patients about it.

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Although associated with cats, this infection can be carried by many other creatures, including dogs, horses, and certain ticks and flies. Here's the lowdown on how to recognize cat scratch disease and what to teach patients about it.

This headline-grabbing treatment for Clostridium difficile-associated gastrointestinal disease is gaining support among infectious disease experts. Learn why a fecal transplant can fight stubborn bacterial infections, when it's indicated, and how you should educate and support your patient.

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This headline-grabbing treatment for Clostridium difficile-associated gastrointestinal disease is gaining support among infectious disease experts. Learn why a fecal transplant can fight stubborn bacterial infections, when it's indicated, and how you should educate and support your patient.

Acquired in healthcare settings, this new category of pneumonia is more complicated and potentially more deadly than community-acquired pneumonia. Here's how to recognize and manage this emerging threat.

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Acquired in healthcare settings, this new category of pneumonia is more complicated and potentially more deadly than community-acquired pneumonia. Here's how to recognize and manage this emerging threat.

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Of the 1.1 million Americans with HIV, more than 20% don't know they're infected. Make sure you're screening patients appropriately, then help educate those diagnosed with HIV about the latest treatment advances.

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Of the 1.1 million Americans with HIV, more than 20% don't know they're infected. Make sure you're screening patients appropriately, then help educate those diagnosed with HIV about the latest treatment advances.

What you need to know about three dangerous infections increasingly prevalent in hospitalized patients: a new, multidrug-resistant form of MRSA; "Acinetobacter" baumannii, a threat to soldiers in Iraq as well as stateside; and a strain of Clostridium difficile that constantly produces toxins

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What you need to know about three dangerous infections increasingly prevalent in hospitalized patients: a new, multidrug-resistant form of MRSA; "Acinetobacter" baumannii, a threat to soldiers in Iraq as well as stateside; and a strain of Clostridium difficile that constantly produces toxins

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Read this inspiring account of how nurses in one unit investigated the impact of head-of-bed elevation on rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia and initiated nursing practice changes that improved patient care.

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Read this inspiring account of how nurses in one unit investigated the impact of head-of-bed elevation on rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia and initiated nursing practice changes that improved patient care.